Incompatible Interspecies Wives chapter 117

117 – If I Hug You Now (1)

Breaking the colic of the festival, I told the crew.

“…Everybody stand up. It’s an urgent request.”

Everyone realizes that I’m not joking when I see myself talking without loosening my expression.

After a short silence, all the members nodded and hurriedly started preparing. It didn’t take long.

All of them were elite members, and their expertise was higher than anyone else.

Only Baran ran to me and asked about the situation.

“Vice-captain, what’s going on?”

“…”

While he was momentarily unable to answer, Gail spoke from the side.

“I have to go help the warriors. He said he was in danger. You only have to go to the Jackson family estate nearby… The sooner the better.”

The movements of some of the members slow down after hearing that they are a group of warriors.

They looked back and forth between me and Gale.

And Baran continued asking, as if representing the members’ doubts.

“…A party of warriors?”

“…”

I nodded briefly.

“Are you saying you’re going to help such a tycoon?”

I nodded again.

“…Yes. But no one knows what the enemy is or what they will face. So everyone should be prepared.”

“Vice-captain, even if you don’t talk to the captain-“

“-I have already been contacted by my brother about a similar problem. It’s a problem that you are vaguely aware of.”

Hearing that, Baran finally nodded.

“…Hey, the vice-captain’s words are the captain’s words.”

Soon after, Baran turned around and began to prepare.

A little time passes.

The crew finishes preparations for departure.

After sending several letters, Gale borrowed a horse from the village chief and approached us.

Also, Arwyn brought Nere who was staying somewhere in the village.

Ner’s expression was full of confusion.

“Berg…How is this…”

Like Arwyn, Ner is finely dressed.

The anticipation for the festival is revealed.

The more I do, the more I feel sorry and a feeling similar to guilt.

…I didn’t even know it was because of the future that would happen.

“…We have to go, Ner.”

I said.

If I had a choice, I wouldn’t have gone.

If the party of warriors could get help from others… They probably wouldn’t have gone.

Now the relationship with my wives, which seemed strong on the surface, started to creak little by little from the inside.

…It could be fatal for someone else to intervene.

You may not even give the heart you wanted to give.

There has never been a more inappropriate moment than now.

But there was no choice.

Arrwyn’s acquaintance named Sylprien sent an urgent letter, and Gale received the letter.

If we didn’t go, the outcome could not be guaranteed.

“I’ll explain as I go. Get on the horse first.”

I thought about leaving her wives here for a while… But no matter how much I thought about it, it wasn’t.

The first is the issue of safety, and the second is the issue of waiting.

We don’t know how soon we’ll be back.

In that case, it would have been better for the two of them to wait inside the Jackson family estate.

Also, when the work was over, Adam would also come to Jackson Village.

In the meantime, she couldn’t leave her wives in this village.

…Nevertheless, on the way to the warrior party, the two would start to fall behind.

At that time, it was clear that we would have to go ahead, leaving Burns and the other group chiefs as escorts.

“…”

Ner looked at me and nodded.

He followed me even in the midst of chaos.

I felt sorry for that appearance…But I was grateful.

I also get on the horse soon.

The Dwarf residents who came out to see us groaned as they saw us like that.

But I couldn’t afford to pay attention to them.

As much as the choice was made, Chinese poetry was an urgent matter.

“Let’s go.”

At those words, Baran shouted.

“Go!”

And with breakneck speed, we began to advance towards the Jackson family estate.

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I could see Arwin and Nere trying to keep up with the pace.

The sight made me uncomfortable, but I couldn’t slow down.

A moment that was predicted to come someday.

I don’t know why, but I’ve been convinced that this day will come.

But I never thought that it would be like this again.

I wondered if there would come a moment when I could see his face from afar.

Isn’t she the one who said she would live well as a saint?

Seeing the saintess who became a hero in the cheering crowd, I thought I might recall distant memories.

But it turned out like this.

I’m running to her again.

My heart was beating faster than ever.

Uneasy yet profound, emotions that are hard for me to describe shake my heart.

What will I see?

What are you going to talk about with her? No, can we talk?

How much has changed. What will they say when they see me as a mercenary?

Endless questions swirled inside me.

-Kurleung…

Unfortunately, the sky began to darken due to the blow.

-Todok…Toduduk…

Soon after that, even the rain began to fall.

…It was a day when I didn’t like anything.

****

The battle continued for two days, including the previous day.

I couldn’t even rest for a moment.

The rain that had been pouring down from sometime kept cooling my body.

The soldiers fell one by one in the endless battle.

The saintess tried to cheer them up somehow… But she was getting tired of even the person involved.

She endured for a long time in the endless tension between her life and death.

I neither ate nor drank. She couldn’t even close her eyes. She couldn’t even escape the cold.

I had to stay sane for a long time in an urgent situation that exploded moment by moment.

But now it seemed that even that was coming to an end.

“Kuu!”

Akran stumbled after colliding with a monster that rushed in from a blind spot.

The legs of his horse, which would normally not shake, stagger.

Amidst the endless crowd of monsters, one monster shines brightly.

In an instant, it jumped up at the staggering Akran, baring its teeth.

-Squat!

Perhaps, had it not been for Felix, he might have allowed the fatal blow.

“Akran, wake up!”

Felix expressed his concern in anger.

Akran staggered and shook his head.

He also seemed to be fighting a passionate battle with the souma, who had been approaching from battle fatigue.

This was Akran, who was chosen by the God of War.

The other soldiers had nothing to say.

When a dull thump echoed through the ground, it meant that another life had left.

It was the soldiers’ desperate words to survive.

I was so exhausted that I couldn’t even scream, and fell silently like a rotten tree.

I could feel that quiet death through the narrowing of the siege.

The saintess had to see all of that from the center of her battlefield.

Hope is fading little by little.

There was no way out of sight.

“…”

Is this all there is to it?

I wonder if I’ll die like this… In vain.

Am I not going to be able to meet Berg?

Couldn’t he touch that face again?

I have to apologize… But I can’t even apologize.

“No…No…”

The saintess held her hands together and raised her prayers.

Even so, the bright light that spread around her lost its color.

Her mind flashed back and forth, and every time she realized that her consciousness was shaking, her heart was startled.

I felt the strain on my body from using so many miraculous powers.

-Kwakkak.. Kkak!

At that moment, a monster breaks through the encirclement and attacks.

“Akran!”

Felix, who discovered it, shouted while dealing with several monsters, but Akran also seemed unable to afford it.

It was a fleeting moment that was hard for anyone to react to.

The monster immediately jumped at the saintess who was kneeling down and praying for her.

She closed her eyes in her terror,

“…Bell…!”

Unknowingly, calling out a name as if shouting.

-Squat!

However, along with the cruel sound that followed, the arrow was stuck between the monster’s forehead.

“Are you all right! A saint?”

Silprien appeared beside her and asked her.

The saintess calmed her startled heart and nodded her head.

“Yes…Yes…”

But to be honest with her… It wasn’t okay.

Especially after shouting Berg’s name, her heart seems to be breaking down.

I miss him so much.

He was a man who always protected himself.

From the first meeting, he has been like that.

He saved me from being sold as a prostitute, and protected me from adults after his parents died. He was a berg who fought for himself dozens of times from strong people in the orphanage.

I am so afraid that he is not around.

I was so lonely.

If only I could see his face… I felt like I could pay any price.

There were so many memories that I regret.

A thump-thump makes me realize that another soldier has collapsed.

The sound began to be heard more and more frequently.

The siege begins to rapidly diminish.

“…Ah…”

As if Sylprien, who was by his side, had a premonition of the end… He sighed quietly.

An elf who valued lifespan was facing the end.

Prin, who was helping them, also stumbles and falls.

Felix appeared in an instant and saved Prin.

“Keugh…!”

But now Felix was also being pushed back.

I felt like I was running out of energy because I didn’t have any colleagues who were by my side.

The wounds also increased on Akran’s body.

However, I did not think that the number of monsters flocking to it would decrease.

She didn’t even know that maybe she should prepare for her death.

Maybe it was fortunate. Maybe it was the right choice for a long time.

If I was going to die like this… I’m glad I took the berg away.

If she was still in love, she would have been saddened by the news of her own death.

Perhaps he followed.

So she might be lucky in that part.

But one regret remains.

No, there are many regrets left.

There were so many things I couldn’t do with Berg.

The decision to see the waterfall at Blackwood’s estate.

The decision to see the world tree in Celebrien’s territory.

Anything that you decided to make a covenant with in marriage.

Not being able to share a passionate night of love.

Everyone, now it’s time to give up…

“…”

A drop of tear falls down.

“…No…Uh…”

She whispered.

It was so unfortunate that I couldn’t taste that kind of happiness with Berg.

I have lived like this because I dreamed of such a future.

She sacrificed herself to live with him without worry.

“…I don’t like it… I hate it…!”

As if to complain to Berg, who was not by her side, she continued.

Soon she took a deep breath and looked up at the sky.

She whispered to the sky as she faced the rain.

“…Huh…Resentment…Hey…!”

She says, holding back her cries.

“Just once…it’s okay if you give me happiness…”

Instead of raising her hands in prayer, she gathers them as if asking for her mercy.

Rubbing her hands, she wishes.

“…You tried… Just once… Please…”

But the sky still did not give any answer.

“Keah!!”

“Akran!”

Silprien shot her bow while watching Akran being pushed back by the monster.

Hearing the sound of her comrades dying, the saintess too roughly wiped away her tears.

-Swimsuk.

Soon, she put strength into her hands and poured all her strength into it.

Squeeze out all the remaining power in her body and perform miracles.

The light is getting brighter again.

Prin, who had fallen, staggered to his feet.

“…Huh…Everyone…Strength…!”

The saintess who lost her own hope cried out.

Soldiers who thought they were about to die also squeezed their strength at those words and stood up like corpses.

Akran also brushed off the monsters, and Felix pushed them away again.

The moment I thought that the light of hope had returned, another monster rushed through the gap in the encirclement.

This time, even Silprien had no time to react.

– Puck!

A monster resembling a large wild dog shocked the saintess’ body.

“Ah…!”

-Steel Puck!

“Holy Lady!”

The saintess, who worked her miracles and squeezed all her strength, collapsed into a mud puddle.

Belatedly, Sylprien hunted monsters…But the saintess had no more strength left.

I strained her arm, but it didn’t move.

She tried to get her head out of the mud puddle but couldn’t lift it.

The miracle she was performing also loses its luster again.

The soldiers who regained their strength are pushed back again.

I really felt that it was over.

It was more comfortable lying down like this than standing up.

At the same time, the saintess’ ears were deafened.

Her head hummed.

The sound of her wild battle gradually leaves her.

My field of vision was getting narrower.

Only the sound of my breathing grew louder and louder.

As she lost consciousness… She tried to utter her last words.

And there was only one thing she wanted to say.

It was a name she never forgot.

“…”

…But her mouth didn’t open.

She couldn’t whisper the name.

I didn’t even have the strength to do that.

-…..Wuuu…

At that fading consciousness, a sound resembling a trumpet echoes.

With that sound, her cold body regained warmth.

Blinking their eyes again, the monster’s encirclement surrounding them was wide open.

However, monsters did not pour in through that gap.

Rather…With a confident gait, someone walked slowly.

In a world darkened by rain, a man who shines alone appears.

‘…Ah.’

Are you dreaming?

Or am I seeing something wrong?

Or is it death?

I wonder if the sound of the trumpet I heard earlier was also the sound of a celestial instrument.

A man who shouldn’t exist here walks by.

The man I missed so much approaches with a smile.

He always showed up in moments of danger.

Even his arms were open to give him a familiar hug.

‘…Bell.’

I call out that sweet and bitter name in my heart.

With a smile on his lips and tears in his eyes.

At the same time, consciousness disappears.

Maybe it was fortunate.

That I can’t move.

If he could have moved, he would have run to the illusion and embraced it.

And even that would definitely be a problem.

‘…Me.’

There was only one reason.

The demon lord was still alive…But on the other hand, she was too weak.

‘…If I hug you right now…’

Shien closed her eyes.

I couldn’t keep my eyes open.

His figure disappears.

‘…I don’t think I can go any further.’